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Am looking to get into these but have seen conflicting reports about how the nano-texture material interacts with font rendering. Am curious if anyone has empirical experience doing long coding sessions on these just yet.

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I am a fresh graduate data engineer working at a small company in the oil and drilling industry.

I was hired 6 months ago as a freelance data engineer, and after proving myself through my work quality, I am now essentially functioning as a tech lead, with full responsibility and ownership of designing, implementing, and hiring for the projects I'm assigned.

Our company is not a tech company, so I only have a couple of tech-oriented colleagues, and I barely interact with them. Now I directly report to the director of the company, who in all senses is awesome, with 40+ years of combined experience in some of the biggest oil and drilling companies globally.

However, I have some strong FOMO about not being able to learn much technical stuff from my peers or seniors. I am trying my best to learn and pick things up on my own, learning design principles, getting code reviews from chatGPT, etc. But even then, I'm afraid I am not producing the software to the highest standards of the industry since we don't have any rigorous cross-checking, and might be missing out on a lot of learning.

Can someone who has been in positions similar to these please guide me?

My music theory teacher has built from scratch, without much coding knowledge, an Electron app with games. Example of games are: guess the 2-3 notes randomly played by the piano, find the intervals etc. Those are multiple choice games mostly.

He is now on a journey to build games that interact with notes on scores, like colorize all the Cs, click on the notes that are wrong vs what you hear etc.

He is building everything from scratch, with the scores, the notes, and I'm wondering if there are some tools or libraries out there that provide much flexibility to build stuff for music theory.

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Hello folks!

Do you guys use any tools/process to your AI prompts? Or still prefer to keep it adhoc?

New shiny AI tools and apps appear daily. Many of them are trash, but some are gems, and can change work or life drastically.

Big players/LLMs aside (ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Github Copilot, etc), what tool you found that stands out and really nails the prolem it supposed to help with. Could be very niche tool. Share as many as you wish.

I'm a salaried software engineering employed in Washington state. I make a bit under $100k. Today I learned about minimum wage laws in WA state for computing professionals that would give me a raise of $15k - $20k / yr. Question is - how do I bring it up to my employer, and is it as straightforward as it sounds here?

WAC 296-128-535 states that:

"Beginning January 1, 2022, and each following year, an amount not less than 3.5 times the minimum wage prescribed in RCW 49.46.020 per hour regardless of the size of the employer" [0]

3.5 times the current minimum wage would be $16.28 * 3.5 * 160hrs * 12 or ~109k / yr, before the minimum wage increases here again in January.

- I design, document, write, test, debug, etc. low-level software in my job (I fit the description according to the written law).

- I am compensated on a salary basis.

I'm assuming, if this were correct, my employer would also owe me back pay if this is in fact a miscalculation, of all the months since I started (I started after January 1, 2022)?

[0] https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=296-128-535

Happy holidays HN. I am hoping to continue the generosity, tradition, and good will of Alexander Thomas Drummond (u/atdrummond), who contributed tens of thousands of dollars to community members here during the Holidays to help people who were struggling [1]. Sadly, Alexander passed away earlier this year [2].

This is not a request for donations. I am content to finance this operation myself (although others are free to offer additional support). All I ask is that you let us know your financial needs and their general purpose so that we can maximize the number of people we can help.

To be clear, while the original intent was to provide dinner expenses for the holidays, this need not be the only reason you ask for funds.

Reasonable requests include:

- Holiday housing

- Toys/gifts for family members

- Food

- Travel assistance

- Medical expenses

- Entertainment for the family

I understand that it can be tough to ask for help. The majority of those who request assistance do so over email and I assure you that I will keep your request and information private and between us. I humbly request you don't share my personal information.

I am happy to use this thread for any questions the community and potential beneficiaries may have.

e: hoarder dot edition0u at icloud dot com

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492378

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40508725

Just received by email:

We are writing to inform you about important changes to the tariff structure of our Cloud servers (CCX and CPX lines) and our Load balancers at our US locations in Ashburn and Hillsboro.

What will change?

Starting on 1 December 2024, 01:00 am CET, we will begin charging new prices for newly-created Cloud servers and introduce new amounts for included traffic for Cloud Servers and Load balancers at the US locations in Ashburn (ASH) and Hillsboro (HIL). This also applies to existing Cloud servers and Load balancers that are switched to a different tariff using the “Rescale” function. For any existing Cloud servers and Load balancers you have at these locations, the new prices and the new amounts for included traffic will apply later, starting on 1 February 2025, 01:00 am CET. The price for traffic overage will remain unchanged in the new price structure.

What are the new prices and amounts of included traffic?

Below, you can see a list of the old and new prices and the included traffic.

Product Old price New price Old included traffic New included traffic

CPX11 € 3.85 € 4.49 20 TB 1 TB

CPX21 € 7.05 € 8.99 20 TB 2 TB

CPX31 € 13.10 € 15.99 20 TB 3 TB

CPX41 € 24.70 € 29.99 20 TB 4 TB

CPX51 € 54.40 € 59.99 20 TB 5 TB

CCX13 € 11.99 € 12.99 20 TB 1 TB

CCX23 € 23.99 € 25.99 20 TB 2 TB

CCX33 € 47.99 € 49.99 30 TB 3 TB

CCX43 € 95.99 € 99.99 40 TB 4 TB

CCX53 € 191.99 € 199.99 50 TB 6 TB

CCX63 € 287.99 € 299.99 60 TB 8 TB

LB11 € 5.39 unchanged 20 TB 1 TB

LB21 € 16.40 unchanged 20 TB 2 TB

LB31 € 32.90 unchanged 20 TB 3 TB

All monthly prices are excl. VAT and excl. IPv4 addresses. Why are we making these changes?

With the new tariff structure, we want to make conditions for our customers around the world as fair as possible. To do that, we will calculate our prices based on local conditions in Europe, Singapore, and the USA. Until this change, customers who have used fewer resources have covered the costs, in a way, for other customers who have used much more resources. We want to make things more balanced. The new prices will give our customers the best possible price for the resources they use.

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Last I heard it closed and everything was auctioned off.

I'm not from Seattle but I'm surprised given the huge tech presence there that no one took over and tried to re-open it, even by crowd funding.

I recently bought the expired domain of a niche interest site because the previous owner was determined to let it die and did not want to put any effort in it anymore.

Is there a way I can "revive" it from archive.org in a more or less automated fashion? Have you ever encountered anything like it? I am familiar with web scraping, but archive.org has its peculiarities.

I really, really love the content on it.

It's a very niche site, but I would love for it to live on.

Who would have imagined that the way to break the facebook monopoly was to make social networks political

We now have threads bluesky and X, it's looking good like the tumblr/myspace years

This is good for innovation!

I don’t know if it’s a recent change or been there a long time, but the entire Aliexpress UI seems designed to trick you into buying “bargains” by displaying an image with a price but that’s not what you get if you hit buy, you get some other sub item on the page.

It all seems designed explicitly to trick you into buying something that you didn’t expect.

Anyone else noticed this?

Earlier this year I acquired a small software project named pxl.to

I liked it, because it helped small businesses to improve tracking with marketing campaigns, create QR codes and link-in-bio pages.

The previous owner ran AppSumo campaigns and quickly amassed a loyal audience to the product. 4.5 to 5 star rating across the board. People really liked it.

Yesterday evening I started noticing something strange: the DNS was not propagating anymore. Country by country I could see pxl.to not being reachable. My email stoppped working as well.

After getting in touch with Namecheap they said the issue is with the registrar. After getting in touch with them, they said they received a complaint about a phishing site being redirected to from pxl.to

No warning was issued. My domain was disabled and that's about as much as support will tell me.

One person decided to disable my domain, along with a business I invested $50k of my savings to acquire.

I’m building a tool that analyzes your GitHub activity to boost productivity. Before I start developing, I’d love to hear from the community: What’s the one feature you’d want most in a GitHub productivity tool?

Drop your ideas below, and I’d really appreciate your feedback to help shape the tool!

A few months ago there was a post about a platform looking for funding (i think ?) that was highly praised for the quality of its content.

I thought I favored the link, but I can't seem to find it ? Any help ?

I'm working on a large web scraping project and looking to avoid building custom scrapers for every site using something like BeautifulSoup.

Anyone have recommendations for up-to-date scraping APIs or platforms that work well with a variety of websites?

Has anyone here did something like this with 0 audience ? Because it seems that this only works when you have like a 10K followers or a 5K community members

Hi HN,

I have an idea for a product, but I want to test the waters before building anything.

Here is the landing page I put together today:

https://www.get-aerial.com/

The idea is to make a tool where you can draw documentation diagrams totally freeform, like: User does X, signal gets sent to DB, process X picks up files here, etc. But instead of being static, you'd have the ability to hook that diagram to actually running code.

That way your code could post hearbeats or logs to my endpoint, and you'd see the node being active in the diagram.

The idea is that this would help:

1. keep documentation diagrams up-to-date

2. allow for full-tech-stack logical monitoring

Any takers?

I want to build a private AI setup for my company. Im thinking of hosting our model locally instead of in the cloud, using a server at the office that my team can access. Has anyone else done this and had success with it?

This setup will be used internally for uncensored chat, coding, image gen and analysis.

We're thinking of using a combo of hardware:

- RTX 4090 GPU (heard it's a beast)

- Threadripper Pro 5955WX (anyone used this one before?)

- SSD NVMe 1TB

What are your picks for a local AI setup? And what’s the minimum budget to achieve it?

A few years ago in 2021, I put together a guide to resources for learning computational complexity theory at the graduate level [0]. Think time and space complexity, hierarchy theorems, and circuit complexity.

For video lectures, for instance, I recommended Ryan O’Donnell undergraduate [1] and graduate classes [2] at CMU. To keep this up to date, I want to add more options for lecture notes and videos.

Have you worked through a new book or a recent set of lectures that were helpful?

[0]: https://bcmullins.github.io/complexity_theory_resources/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3J0oaFux3YL5vLXpzOyJiLtqLp6dCW2

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3J0oaFux3b8Gg1DdaJOzYNsaXYLAOKH

Downdetector seems to show a spike in virtually all the internet. Mostly focused around google's properties? The status pages of every individual service shows green checkmarks. Anyone know what happened?

NVIDIA unveiled new AI model-fugatto. Is there any open-source code to customize?

Building a receipt management platform for <10 employee businesses to give them an easier way to track deductions. Want to offer them Working Capital loans, but need a vendor. Recommendations? Thank you!

I work on my company's internal resources software (our intranet) as a dev. Employees within the company enter help tickets when something goes wrong. These tickets are often extremely vague and require follow-up. It seems no matter how meticulously we setup a form to eliminate this follow up, the tickets are still vague enough to require follow up in every case.

I just want to be able to receive a ticket and then have a really good idea of how to solve it. To do this, I'm thinking of building an AI chat bot that will eliminate as much follow up as possible so that when an employee makes a really vague ticket, the ai chat bot responds by asking them to provide specific steps to replicate and etc.

At the end of the day I get a cleanly formatted and specific ticket automatically posted to Jira that I can work on.

Feel free to roast/destroy this idea reddit-style, but if you think it has potential, I'd love to know that too! Perhaps some of you are already doing this.

I've been lost from the internet space for some time, I remember PhpBB times, own hosted websites, chains that chained pages etc. Now I would like to start blogging.

(1) What platform should I start?

(2) How to not lose to a big player (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712885)

(3) if possible - how not to allow AI to steal my work?